Role of human leukocyte antigen system as a predictive biomarker for checkpoint-based immunotherapy in cancer patients

F Sabbatino, L Liguori, G Polcaro, I Salvato… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy have clearly shown that checkpoint-based
immunotherapy is effective in a small subgroup of cancer patients. However, no effective …

Importance of the major histocompatibility complex (swine leukocyte antigen) in swine health and biomedical research

SE Hammer, CS Ho, A Ando… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In pigs, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or swine leukocyte antigen (SLA)
complex, maps to Sus scrofa chromosome 7. It consists of three regions, the class I and …

Ipd-imgt/hla database

J Robinson, DJ Barker, X Georgiou… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The IPD-IMGT/HLA Database, http://www. ebi. ac. uk/ipd/imgt/hla/, currently
contains over 25 000 allele sequence for 45 genes, which are located within the Major …

HLA allele frequencies and susceptibility to COVID‐19 in a group of 99 Italian patients

A Novelli, M Andreani, M Biancolella, L Liberatoscioli… - Hla, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the aim to individuate alleles that may reflect a higher susceptibility to the disease, in
the present study we analyzed the HLA allele frequency distribution in a group of 99 Italian …

iPSC-derived homogeneous populations of developing schizophrenia cortical interneurons have compromised mitochondrial function

P Ni, H Noh, GH Park, Z Shao, Y Guan, JM Park… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a neurodevelopmental disorder. Thus, studying pathogenetic
mechanisms underlying SCZ requires studying the development of brain cells. Cortical …

Major histocompatibility complex-associated odour preferences and human mate choice: near and far horizons

J Havlíček, J Winternitz… - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a core part of the adaptive immune system.
As in other vertebrate taxa, it may also affect human chemical communication via odour …

HLAs, TCRs, and KIRs, a triumvirate of human cell-mediated immunity

Z Djaoud, P Parham - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In all human cells, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I glycoproteins assemble with a
peptide and take it to the cell surface for surveillance by lymphocytes. These include natural …

A diploid assembly-based benchmark for variants in the major histocompatibility complex

CS Chin, J Wagner, Q Zeng, E Garrison, S Garg… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Most human genomes are characterized by aligning individual reads to the reference
genome, but accurate long reads and linked reads now enable us to construct accurate …

A genome-wide association study identifies two novel susceptible regions for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

S Shete, H Liu, J Wang, R Yu, EM Sturgis, G Li… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
To identify genetic variants for risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
(SCCHN), we conducted a two-phase genome-wide association study consisting of …

The unconventional role of HLA-E: The road less traveled

EJ Grant, AT Nguyen, CA Lobos, C Szeto… - Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Histocompatibility Leukocyte Antigens, or HLAs, are one of the most polymorphic
molecules in humans. This high degree of polymorphism endows HLA molecules with the …